Word

ξυράω

xyráō · G3587 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

to shave

To shave the head or beard

Examples
Acts 21:24 take them along and purify yourself together with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads; and then everyone will know that there is nothing to what they have been told about you, but that you yourself also conform, keeping the Law.
1 Corinthians 11:5 But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for it is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaved.
1 Corinthians 11:6 For if a woman does not cover her head, have her also cut her hair off; however, if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, have her cover her head.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

Not stated: they 1
Not stated (infinitive) 1
Not stated (participle) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

κεφαλήhead 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

αἰσχρόςdisgraceful 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

גָּלַח gâlach · H1548 · to shave (oneself), to cut off (hair), to shave (someone): Hebrew גָּלַח and Greek ξυράω are direct cross-linguistic equivalents, both denoting the act of shaving or removing hair with a blade.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To shave19.24: Advising Paul on a vow, Acts 21:24 states “take them along and purify yourself together with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads,” where “shave” renders this verb for the ritual removal of hair.

Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ξέστης xéstēs · G3582 · pitcher, jar · 1×ξύλον xýlon · G3586 · wood, firewood · 20×ξηραίνω xēraínō · G3583 · to dry out, to dry up, to wither · 15×ξηρός xērós · G3584 · dry, withered, paralyzed · 8×ξυράωxyráō · G3587λατομέω latoméō · G2998 · to cut rock, to hew out rock · 2×ξύλινος xýlinos · G3585 · of wood, wooden · 2×λαξευτός laxeutós · G2991 · hewn out of rock · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (a later form, from Diodorus (1, 84) down, for ξυρέω, which the earlier writers used from…

(a later form, from Diodorus (1, 84) down, for ξυρέω, which the earlier writers used from Herodotus down; (Winers Grammar, 24; Buttmann, 63 (55); especially Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 53)), ξυρῷ: perfect passive participle ἐξυρημενος; middle, present infinitive ξυρᾶσθαι (for which some would read (1 Cor 11:6) ξυρᾶσθαι (1 aorist middle infinitive from ξυρῷ); see WH's Appendix, p. 166); 1 aorist subjunctive 3 person plural ξυρήσωνται (but T Tr WH read the future ξυρήσονται); (from ξυρόν a razor, and this from ξύω); the Sept. for גִּלַּח; to shear, shave: passive 1 Cor 11:5; middle to get oneself shaved, 1 Cor 11:6; 1 Cor 11:6; with an accusative specifying the object more precisely (cf. Buttmann, § 134, 7; Winer's Grammar, § 32, 5): τήν κεφαλήν, Acts 21:21 (the Sept. Num 6:9, 19: Lev 21:5; τάς ὀφρύας, Herodotus 2, 66; τό σῶμα, 2, 37).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Pierce, Cut3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0